Iris

Chapter Eighteen

[A/N: Good morning one and all. Hope you all are having a lovely day! Here is chapter 18. Hope you like it. Thank-you once again for readng Iris. Love to all! ^_^ Oh and all rights go to their respective owners...I mean the song that is used in this chapter.]

That was a weird dream. I opened my eyes sleepily and tried to adjust them to the lighting. I wondered what task we would be doing today. I tried to move my arms but it was as if they were tied down or something. Once my eyes were comfortable with the darkness I looked down at my arms. They were bound behind my back with what felt like a thick and heavy rope. My eyes shot to my legs, they were taped to the legs of the chair. That’s when I realised I was pinned to a wooden chair. What the hell was going on here? My mind raced as the events of what had happened hit me like a bullet train. Fear spread through my whole body as I began to shake. Ok Iris, you just need to remain calm. What do they say to do when you are kidnapped? I felt my heart beat increase dramatically as I tried without successful to calm down. They don’t say anything because you’ve never been kidnapped before! I took two deep shaky breaths. It seemed to let me relax a tiny bit but my heart was still going at a hundred miles per hour. First I needed to work out what time it was, where I was and how to get out of here.

“Oh you’re awake.” Brad’s familiar voice commented somewhere in the darkness.

“Where the hell am I?” I snapped. Where did that strength come from? Brad chucked as he stepped closer and flicked on a light. The room around me flooded with brightness and revealed everything. I was in a room that looked like some old store shed with dust and cobwebs all around. Two light blubs hung from the ceiling, one over my head and the other on the other side of the room. The blubs swung from side to side just like they do in the horror movies.

“Well lassie, can’t say you weren’t warned.” Brad shrugged. Jamie entered the room with a frown on her face.

“Boss wants you.” Jamie said shortly. Brad was about to say something to me but noticed that Jamie wasn’t smiling.

“We’ll talk later.” Brad said to be bluntly and then exited through the only visible metal door. Now it was only Jamie and me in the room. Maybe I could get through to Jamie. She could be like Alison, hard exterior with a friend inside.

“Jamie, where am I? What am I doing here?” I asked seriously.

“Oh Iris, you poor little farm girl, look at the mess you have gotten yourself into. It would never have ended up like this if you had just left the competition.”

“It was a little more complicated than you may think.”

“Oh please, you think you found your one true love…Blade is sixteen, a boy, I on the other hand have a man. He understands what I need and he helped me with a career path.” Jamie smirked.

“So what happened Jamie? Brad approached you one day when he found out that you were arranged to marry Blade and swept you off your feet so that you would gain him access to the Deans?” I snapped. “Brad doesn’t love you or want you. He needs you to help him satisfy his boss, whoever the hell that is.”

“Shut up!” Jamie screamed at me. “You are lying. What do you know anyway?”

“Jamie, think about this, Brad is using you.” I said calmly. Good work Iris, make her confused. She may switch teams or get very mad; it’s a fifty/fifty plan. There was a knock at the door before Jamie could respond. A tall skinny man, wearing a grey stripped suit and yellow tie entered with Brad and two other men behind him. I have a bad feeling about this guy Iris.

“Why hello there, Miss Hollow is it?” the skinny man asked in a tone that I didn’t like.

“Iris Hollow, sir.” Jamie explained pointing at me. She looked so small and scared of this new guy. It was odd to see Jamie look like that.